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Circulation and Transportation Public Draft, August 26, 2020 CIRCULATION AND TRANSPORTATION 44.1 OVERVIEW 4.4 ACCESSIBILITY 46 66 4.2 CONTEXT 4.5 PUBLIC PARKING 46 STRATEGY 66 4.3 ACCESS 48 A successful Area Plan must accommodate all modes of travel safely and effectively. This section describes how each mode of travel is accommodated within the site boundary. Sacramento Valley Station Area Plan Public Draft, August 26, 2020 then car share, and lowest priority for single nj An integrated circulation plan which prioritizes 4.1 OVERVIEW occupant vehicles. transit access over private vehicles and supports the electrification of local and nj A vehicular circulation plan which serves the regional fleets for zero-emission mobility. Transportation and circulation are critical needs of on-site development but eliminates components of the safe and effective movement the possibility of through traffic. Other modes of nj A public parking strategy and management of people and goods within the site and beyond. travel take priority on the street network. plan that efficiently accommodates limited on-site demand, supports commuter travel The Area Plan accommodates all modes of travel, nj Segregation of pedestrians, bicycles, vehicles with an emphasis on pedestrians and bicyclists and light rail at the main point of entry from patterns and effectively uses existing parking including the requisite accommodations to them the 5th and H Street intersection. spaces rather than creating new ones in the as transit users. By concentrating high-density interim. No surface parking lot is allowed. The development around the Station with a diversity nj An integrated pedestrian network of generous proposed district-wide shared parking supply of uses in close proximity, the Area Plan aims to sidewalks, plazas and roadway crossings at transforms the space on site for cars into space reduce the reliance on private vehicles, helping locations where vehicles will be travelling at for people. lower speeds. to minimize traffic congestion and the amount nj Reduced but flexible parking Principles for of land dedicated to parking. The Area Plan nj A bicycle network that builds upon the existing private development based on current best envisions the following: City plans and integrates more fully with the practice and to be complementary to the City’s routes to downtown to the south and east and shared district parking philosophy. nj A transportation hierarchy with people- across the river to West Sacramento. powered travel modes first, transit next, 4.2 CONTEXT Historic Station to the south, two platforms, four The bridge carries two tracks on the lower level, passenger tracks and two freight bypass tracks which then approach at grade into the Station Sacramento Valley Station is the nation’s seventh approximately 500 feet north of the Historic platform area. After landing on the east bank, the busiest Amtrak Station, served by two of the Station. The Historic Station currently provides tracks skew slightly to the northeast and fan out top five intercity Amtrak routes, and with more rail service and passenger amenities. Adjacent to to the platform area, while passing under the I-5 than 1.2 million passengers annually. Average the railroad operational area is the eight-berth elevated freeway. Maritime traffic occasionally weekday use exceeds 3,500 passengers, served intercity bus station, the LRT station and local bus delays rail traffic as the bridge opens to let boats by a fully integrated Amtrak bus operation with stops. The “front door” of the Station is the historic navigate the Sacramento River. It should be noted 22 departures a day. Regional transit light-rail building fronting onto I Street. H Street is also that the majority of daily commute passengers service terminates at the Station, with trains every heavily used between the Historic Station and do not currently use the Historic Station lobby, 30 minutes. Two local bus routes and one intercity platforms. preferring to take the shortest to and from their route to BART also serve the Station hourly. points of departure. To access the Station from the west, trains cross To serve these passengers and accommodate the I Street Bridge (over the Sacramento River), train and bus operations, the facilities include the a two-level steel truss swing bridge built in 1911. 46 Section 4 | Circulation and Transportation RAILYARDS DISTRICT I-5 Viaduct UPRR High Bridge Trail Elevated Station Concourse High Bridge Trail Bus Mobility Center SVS Street 4 Station Concourse G Street California State LOT 40 Railroad Museum SVS Street 2 SVS Street 3 SVS Street 1 Proposed Light Rail I Street SVS Street 1 6th Street OLD SACRAMENTO Historic SVS Street 5 Station H Street Historic Depot Street REA 2nd Street Building 5th Street 3rd Street 4th Street N DOWNTOWN I Street 0’ 100’ 200’ Figure 4.1 Street Names 47 Sacramento Valley Station Area Plan Public Draft, August 26, 2020 4.3 ACCESS Vehicles should be carried through into the detailed design of the streets. The street network has been laid out to serve Operational changes to traffic movement and the needs of the private development blocks for volumes on the extension of 3rd Street north and access, parking, servicing and loading. Private the partial closure of H Street at the Transit Plaza vehicles entering the site to park will do so only to are discussed in more detail in Appendix XX, park in the lower level of the Bus Mobility Center DKS’s Concept of Operations Memorandum. or within development blocks A and B, should their development include on-site parking. Any Refer to Figure 4.2 for the vehicle circulation on-site parking within Lot 40 must be accessed network. from 5th Street, not from within the site, due to the placement of the new light rail tracks and platform. Each street section in the Area Plan has been sized and configured to accommodate only those vehicles needing access and this approach 48 Section 4 | Circulation and Transportation RAILYARDS DISTRICT I-5 Viaduct UPRR High Bridge Trail Proposed Station Concourse High Bridge Trail Bus Mobility Center SVS Street 4 Station SVS Block B Concourse G Street SVS Street 3 California State LOT 40 Railroad Museum SVS Street 1 Proposed Light Rail SVS Street 2 SVS 6th Street Block A OLD SACRAMENTO SVS Street 1 Historic 2nd Street SVS Street 5 Station Historic Depot Street REA H Street Building Existing Street to Remain 5th Street Proposed / Modified Street 3rd Street 4th Street N DOWNTOWN I Street 0’ 100’ 200’ Figure 4.2 Street Network 49 Sacramento Valley Station Area Plan Public Draft, August 26, 2020 Pick-up/Drop-off A secondary, smaller, pick-up/drop-off zone is SVS Street 3 includes a short pick-up/drop-off located on the west side of the Transit Plaza, on zone on the eastern side to serve development The Area Plan provides a variety of opportunities SVS Streets 1 and 3. This zone may also serve Block A. This is part of a one-way loop and for pick-up and drop-off with the intent that each passengers arriving at the Station from the west, must be entered from 5th Street. This same loop of these zones is close to the travelers’ intended but it is primarily intended to serve development contains a pick-up/drop-off zone directly in front destination. The main pick-up and drop off for block B and passengers wishing to gain access of the south entrance to the Historic Station for the new Station concourse is located on the to the north side of the Historic Station. This zone those passengers wishing to access the amenities eastern side of the Transit Plaza, parallel to the is on a two-way loop around development block within the rehabilitated building or preferring to LRT platform, depicted on plan as SVS Street 2. B and may be accessed from a clockwise or walk through the building to gain access to the Vehicles accessing this pick-up/drop-off zone counterclockwise route. Transit Plaza and new Station Concourse. will enter from the 5th and H Street intersection, turnaround at the end of the loop and leave by Refer to Figure 4.3 for pick-up/drop of locations the same intersection. and recommended lengths of zones based on projected TNC forecasting.1 1 From ARUP’s SVS Baseline Planning Capacity Memo 24 Jan, January 24, 2017, page 8 of 9: “Based on 1,500 passengers in the peak 15 minutes with 15% using cabs/TNCs, and assuming 1.5 passengers per vehicle, about 50 cabs would be needed in a five minute window. This requires a holding lot for about 50 vehicles and a curb length of about 200 feet for pick-up.” … The annotated Taxi/TNC formula that leads to 1,500 passengers in the peak 15 minutes is as follows: 12,000/passengers hour (based on aspirational SVS passenger capacity) x 33% (assumed future taxi/TNC mode share) = 4,000 in the peak hour. 4,000 x .33 = peak 15 minutes (assuming 1/3 of peak hour passengers arrive in the peak 15 minutes) = approximately 1,500 passengers in the peak 15 minutes. 50 Section 4 | Circulation and Transportation RAILYARDS DISTRICT I-5 Viaduct UPRR High Bridge Trail Proposed Station Concourse High Bridge Trail Bus Mobility Center SVS Street 4 Station SVS Block B SVS Street 3 Concourse G Street California State LOT 40 Railroad Museum SVS Street 1 Proposed Light Rail SVS Street 2 SVS 6th Street Block A OLD SACRAMENTO SVS Street 1 Historic 2nd Street SVS Street 5 Station Historic Depot Street REA H Street Building Vehicle Access Route 5th Street Pick-up/Drop-off Zone 4th Street N 3rd Street DOWNTOWN I Street 0’ 100’ 200’ Figure 4.3 Pick-up/Drop-off Access 51 Sacramento Valley Station Area Plan Public Draft, August 26, 2020 Pedestrians All streets, paths and plazas within the Area Plan are designed with people and place in mind.
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